The BBC chief I feel sorriest for is Tom Sleigh, Chief Adviser Operations, slaving away for an annual pittance of £76,300. Poor old Tom. How must he be feeling after a national newspaper e...
I was out of town for the first and, so far, only showing of 1 Day here in Birmingham. So like nearly everyone else here, I haven't seen the film made by the internationally renown Penny W...
Last week, Kraft launched its formal offer for Cadbury. The offer, of 300p in cash and 0.2589 new Kraft shares for each Cadbury share, valued Cadbury shares at 717p and the company at £9.8 billion ...
News that hedge funds have piled into Cadbury shares risks undermining the board's defence of the firm. Hedge fund manager John Paulson has increased his stake in Cadbury shares over the last few ...
In a shock move, the Swedish telecoms group Ericsson announced this week that it is to axe its Coventry R&D centre with the loss of some 700 jobs. The surprise withdrawal is part of Ericsson's eff...
Unpalatable, unreasonable, ridiculous and unfair are words that might be used to describe the idea that a form of transaction tax on banking and financial market deals might be imposed throughout G...
Every year, as Remembrance Sunday approaches, I adopt what I like to think is a slightly more philosophical outlook on life than my usual day-to-day worries about Dundee United's midfield (better t...
US cheese-to-chocolate mammoth Kraft is said to be readying a hostile takeover bid for the icon of British chocolate, Cadbury. Meanwhile Cadbury's board is said to be ready to meet to shore up the ...
Announcing a six month operating loss of £111m, a pre tax loss of £292m, paying no interim dividend and painting another poor outlook for the rest of the year would in more normal circumstances be ...
by Jerome Turner On November 2nd, I attended The Big Debate as one of Birmingham City University's facilitators helping consolidate the ideas coming from the discussion. The event highlighted a r...
Apologies for another break in service, brought about by a dire need to spend some time with the nearest and dearest, hopefully the transmission will continue unbroken for the foreseeable....
By Kevin Johnson I'm a little slower to post my thoughts after the Big Debate than the excellent analysis and follow ups from the likes of Dave Harte and Paul Bradshaw or the instant (and spot on)...
In a shock statement, and after six months of haggling and its fourth meeting on the issue, the GM board yesterday announced that it was cancelling plans to sell its European car operations includi...
Please be under no illusion that the decision by GM to abandon a sale of its European Adam Opel and Vauxhall interests has been taken on the basis the outlook for the European auto industry has sud...
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